On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something > > that > > looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know that if you look at the > > FreeBSD man page EVENTHANDLER(9) you can see an event interface, but that > > one is > > intra-kernel, not exported to applications like the Linux one is. Using the > > event interface, like evdev does, takes away the portability. > > > > If I could find a FreeBSD applications-event interface ala Linux, I would be > > overjoyed, and immediately use it. > > NetBSD and OpenBSD share (at least try to) the wscons console driver > which has a notion of event which is not too far away from evdev. It > should be possible to write a more OS neutral event based input driver > which could cover all of Solaris, Linux and wscons events.
Eh, might as well write xf86-input-wscons. I don't see what benefit
you'd gain by sharing a codebase, aside from added complexity and #ifdef
hell, a la xf86-input-{keyboard,mouse}.
Cheers,
Daniel
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